Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ vision

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The race for AI superintelligence just got personal — literally.

Mark Zuckerberg’s recruitment drive has been summer’s biggest AI story, however the Meta CEO just shared his endgame: bringing “personal superintelligence” to everyone through an AI future that empowers people’s dreams, not only business operations.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ vision

• ‘Netflix of AI’ launches with Amazon backing

• Create skilled marketing videos using AI agents

• Google’s AI ‘virtual satellite’ for planet mapping

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

META

🧠 Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ vision

The Rundown: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the corporate’s recent AI vision is to “bring personal superintelligence to everyone,” revealing “glimpses” of AI improving itself while hinting that Meta may not open its advanced models because of safety risks.

The small print:

• Zuckerberg said Meta plans to develop AI assistants that “empower individual goals” slightly than specializing in automating all work like industry rivals.

• He positioned “personal devices like glasses” as primary computing devices of the longer term, which supply a multimodal context to supply deep AI experiences.

• The letter also notes that Meta could also be “careful” about what it opens because of superintelligence safety concerns, a change from its previous strategy.

• The open-source commentary comes amid reports that Meta paused work on its open “Behemoth” model to focus resources on closed models.

Why it matters: Zuck’s superintelligence lab with all-out poaching has been the headline of the summer, but that is probably the most info we’ve gotten yet on a “personal” vision that matches well into Meta’s smart glasses success. The closed-source shift will likely be an interesting one, especially as China pushes forward with near-frontier open models.

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FABLE & AMAZON

🎬 ‘Netflix of AI’ launches with Amazon backing

The Rundown: Amazon just invested an undisclosed amount in Fable’s “Netflix of AI” Showrunner platform, which just went live in Alpha and enables users to generate personalized, playable animated TV episodes through text prompts.

The small print:

• Showrunner launches publicly this week with two original show offerings where users can steer narratives and create episodes inside established worlds.

• Users may also upload themselves as characters, with Fable saying the longer term of animation is “remixable, multiplayer, personalized, and interactive” content.

• The platform will likely be free, with an eventual monthly fee for generation credits — with plans to enable revenue sharing for creators when their content is remixed.

• Showrunner initially went viral in 2023 after releasing an experiment of personalized (but unauthorized) South Park episodes.

Why it matters: Showrunner is launching at a prickly time for AI within the entertainment industry, but could also be a primary mover in making a recent kind of two-way, personalized content experiences. If it takes off, traditional IPs will need to come to a decision between fighting user-generated content or monetizing the brand new remix culture.

AI TRAINING

🎬 Create skilled marketing videos using AI agents

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn the right way to use Claude Code to routinely construct complete video projects using frameworks like Remotion, turning easy prompts into marketing videos with animations and skilled effects.

Step-by-step:

1. Type in your terminal: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

2. Navigate to your project folder and kind claude to activate the AI agent

3. Prompt: “Create a premium marketing video for [your company] using Remotion”

4. Refine with follow-ups and run npm run start to preview your video locally

Pro Tip: Add your individual images, logos, and UI screenshots to the project folder before prompting, and the AI will incorporate them into skilled video sequences.

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AI RESEARCH

🌎 Google’s AI ‘virtual satellite’ for planet mapping

The Rundown: Google DeepMind just introduced AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI model that acts like a “virtual satellite” by integrating massive amounts of Earth remark data to create detailed maps of the planet’s changing landscape.

The small print:

• AlphaEarth uses data from public sources like optical images, radar, 3D laser mapping, and more to create on-demand maps of land and coastal waters.

• The model outperforms similar AI systems in accuracy, speed, and efficiency, helping track events like deforestation or ecosystem changes in near real-time.

• Google tested the dataset with over 50 organizations and now provides yearly updates through Earth Engine for tracking long-term environmental changes.

Why it matters: Satellites have been capturing tons of knowledge for years, but connecting different sources and translating them into useful insights has been a time-consuming process. AI bridges that gap, transforming scattered satellite feeds, radar scans, and climate readings into unified maps that reveal patterns we couldn’t spot before.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 📸 Character – Ideogram’s model for putting specific characters into scenes

• 📚 Study Mode – ChatGPT’s recent feature for guided learning

• 🤖 Motion Agent – Author’s enterprise autonomous AI that works in your behalf

• 📓 NotebookLM – Latest video overviews generate narrated slides on any topic

💼 AI Job Opportunities

• 📣 Dataiku – Senior Digital Marketing Manager

• 🧬 Deepmind – Research Scientist, Multimodal Modelling

• 🗺️ Waymo – Software Engineer, Mapping

• 🎯 Author – Senior GTM sourcer

📰 All the pieces else in AI today

Anthropic is reportedly set to lift $5B in a brand new funding round led by Iconiq Capital at a $170B valuation — nearly tripling its previous valuation from March.

OpenAI announced Stargate Norway, its first data center initiative in Europe, set to be developed through a joint partnership between Aker and Nscale.

YouTube is rolling out recent AI content moderation tools that may estimate a user’s age based on their viewing history and other aspects, aiming to assist ID and protect minors.

Neo AI debuted NEO, an “Agentic Machine Learning Engineer” powered by 11 agents that it says sets SOTA marks on ML-Bench and Kaggle competition tests.

Amazon is reportedly paying between $20-25M a yr to license content from the Latest York Times for AI training and use inside its AI platforms.

A brand new study from The Associated Press found that the best usage of AI is for looking for information, with young adults also using the tool for brainstorming.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team